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\section continue continue - skip the rest of the current lap of the innermost currently evaluated loop

\subsection continue-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>LOOP_CONSTRUCT; [COMMANDS...] continue; [COMMANDS...] end</tt>

\subsection continue-description Description
The \c continue builtin is used to skip the current lap of the innermost currently running loop, such as a <a href="#for">for</a> loop or a <a href="#while">while</a> loop. It is usually added inside of a conditional block such as an <a href="#if">if</a> statement or a <a href="#switch">switch</a> statement.

\subsection continue-example Example
The following code removes all tmp files without smurfs.
<p>
<tt>for i in *.tmp;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if grep smurf $i;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;continue;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;end;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;rm $i;
<br>end;
</tt>
</p>